Week 45

   I hope that you had great birthday on Saturday!  It looks like it because he city threw you a big party! As for this last week it was a pretty busy week, but overall a great week!  We were able to teach that family (Claudia y Fidel) that I mentioned last email several times with the Garcia family.  Earlier on on in the week we were able to teach them the plan of salvation which went really well! And it is always great having the testimonies of the members when they come teaching with us.  Then later on that week we had a lesson with them at the Garcia's home!  We focused on the importance of gaining a testimony of the Book of Mormon to know if the church is truly the restored gospel.  They are also for sure coming to church on Sunday as well.  Then Sunday rolled around and they were planning on coming, but then last second the husband didn't want to go anymore.  We ended up seeing them that night and we asked the, what their doubts were.  He told is that he had some doubts on the Book of Mormon.  It was cool that he opened up to us, because a lot of the time people won't say anything.  We had a really good lesson, and they have committed on reading and praying about the Book of Mormon.  They are such a super solid family and I wish I could just show them how many blessings they are going to receive from the restored gospel.  We hope and pray that they will be able to read and come to church next week! I know for sure that the spirit will testify unto them as they do these things.  The spirit is so important in missionary work and the most powerful tool any missionary could use.  We are excited to continue teaching them though and they already feel like family!

  Speaking of tools on Thursday we all received iPads!!  They are super cool and are going to be a great resource in the missionary work!  We are in stage one so we basically just use gospel library for now.  But after a few weeks we will start using the planner and area book on the iPad which is going to be super cool.  Then later on for stage 3 is when we will start using online proselyting like Facebook and stuff!  

    Also this week we had some really cool lessons with some families that we have been teaching.  We have a really cool lady named Laticia who we were able to see last week.  She understands really well, and the first lesson we taught after we explained the apostasy she even asked "so are we on apostasy right now?"  It's so nice when people actually understand the apostasy and why it was so necessary to have a restoration y not a reformation.  So we are looking forward to teaching here and her family.  We hope we can get up there this week because we are on bikes!  Oh and as well one lunch we were at best buy looking for some stuff for our iPads and a guy came up to me and I asked if he could have a Book of Mormon.  So we went out to the car, and we luckily had one in English.  We talked to him for a little and he said he had talked to some missionaries a few months back, but they didn't have a Book of Mormon with them.  He also works with a lot of BYU Graduates and actually says he know Devin Jackson from work!  But he is interested in learning more about the church.  So we switched information and he actually called us later to set up and to see when we could come by!  It was one of those great moments of being in the right place at the right time!    But that's about all from me this week!  

   Have an awesome week and I love you all so much!  Thank you for everything that you do!  Y ahora puedo escribir mejor en español porque hay acentos en este iPad.  ¡Nos vemos y que tenga una buena semana!

Love, Elder Geddes